What Justine Ryst @JustineRyst Director of Development at Twitter France describes as "the 80% mobile companion of millions of French because it is part of their daily life to inform and inform" is above all a public platform that allows real-time dialogue with the entire world - or at least 320 million users - and disseminate information whether you are a personality, a brand, an institution or a lambda.
To better understand the impact in 10 years of this social network in our daily life, back on the 10 key moments of Twitter with the decrypting of the Director of Development at Twitter France.
March 21, 2006: The first tweet!
just setting up my twttr
In March 2016 Jack Dorsay (@jack), creator of the social platform Twitter posts the first tweet. Who is Jack Dorsay? A touch to any gifted technological network that had already created 15 years of "open source software" still used today by taxi companies. In 2006, after doing the odd jobs, he proposes to the start-up Odeo to develop the idea that has been running in his head for years already: allow everyone to write a few lines about his life then to send it to those who wish to receive it. Twitter is born.
"Tweet today is part of the dictionary, it has become a unit of expression and information that is part of our everyday life whether we are on twitter or not," recalls Justine Ryst.
August 2007: The first hashtag #
how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups "
Internet users already used hashtag but without claiming the idea of tagging a keyword with the # to give their information a priority treatment. The idea therefore officially comes back to Chris Messina @ChrisMessina who proposed to make it a centralization system around themes defined by the simple cross # on Twitter.
January 2009 First picture tweeted
A photo of the emergency landing of a US Airways plane in the Hudson River is tweeted by Janis Krums @jkrums, this is the first photo to be published.
"Whether it is direct official sources with the government tweeted its reshuffle, or from unofficial sources that are the witness users of an event, this information echoes on Twitter. information that the media analyze, verify and disseminate, "recalls Justine Ryst.
January 2010: First space tweet
The 1st Live Tweet Shape Space! "
Astronaut TJ Creamer (@Astro_TJ) sends the first tweet from space.
November 2012: The presidential tweet
Three words only, but one that speaks volumes ... President Barack Obama @BracakObama announces his presidential victory by the tweet the most retweet until then!
"Twitter has become the most powerful microphone in the world whether it's for a personality like Barack Obama, or a person on the street. When Barack Obama tweete himself, he puts his BO signature at the end of his tweets" Justine Ryst.
June 2014: The World Cup tweet-commented!
It was the biggest sporting event of 2014 on Twitter with more than 672 million Tweets during the month of the competition.
"The major sporting events, as well as television and music events, are commented on and shared in real time on Twitter, before being shared the following day in the office or in the schoolyard ... Music is one of the subjects more discussed on Twitter where 43% of users go to discover artists. " explains Justine Ryst.
July 2015: The solidary CV
An SDF distributes his resume instead of doing the round. If it can help, turn it around! #emploi #recrutezmoi #job "
The CV that a homeless person distributed in the Parisian subway is broadcast on Twitter (but also the other social networks) by people affected by his approach, and which will enable him to get a job by broadcasting it on Twitter.
"I insist on this but it is the users who have made Twitter what it is today:
a platform that has completely changed the way we communicate, especially by removing barriers between institutions, brands, and us anonymous people, "recalls Justine Ryst.
November 2015: #prayforparis
The whole world is gathering around Paris after the attacks of November 13 in support of the inhabitants of the city of light.
"Twitter is a new way to mobilize for a cause, like the hashtag #HeforShe and #bringbackourgirls. In the same way that tweet has established itself as a unity of expression hashtag has established itself as a rallying space, like a campfire around a subject and which creates solidarity "remarks Justine Ryst.
February 2016: Record of the number of tweets per minute
Getty photo by Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic
Record held by Leonardo DiCaprio @LeonardoDicarpio which triggers this peak of 440,000 tweets per minute by winning his first Oscar, thus defeating Ellen Degeneres' record of selfie.
21 March 2016: 10 years anniversary of Twitter
With some summaries:
3900 employees worldwide (including approximately 2,000 employees at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco)
320 million monthly active Twitter users
Of these, 200 million visit profile pages
Of these, 75 million visit search results pages
Of these, 125 million visit pages displaying a particular Tweet
Among the latter, 125 million visit the twitter.com homepage (this figure does not take into account users who visit this page and log in)
Hundreds of millions of Twitters are sent per day
500 billion Tweets have been published since the creation of Twitter in 2006
80% of active users are on mobile
Twitter is available in 35 languages
